--- title: And the biggest shark of all, the whale shark, up to 12 to 18 metres… — Sharks · tree and pragmatics description: And the biggest shark of all, the whale shark, up to 12 to 18 metres long, eats only plankton and tiny fish and lets snorkellers swim beside it. Who acts: biggest shark, snorkellers. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sharks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/) / 4 # Sharks, sentence 4 And the biggest shark of all, the whale shark, up to 12 to 18 metres long, eats only plankton and tiny fish and lets snorkellers swim beside it. **Who acts:** biggest shark, snorkellers · **What happens:** eat, let, swim · **To what, where:** plankton, shark This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biggest shark, snorkellers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:028-sharks.lesson:4 # text = And the biggest shark of all, the whale shark, up to 12 to 18 metres long, eats only plankton and tiny fish and lets snorkellers swim beside it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 028-sharks.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 snorkellers snorkeller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 beside beside ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | the biggest shark of all and the whale shark | plankton and tiny fish | | | | long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Patient | | 2 | **let** | present | the biggest shark of all and the whale shark *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **swim** | infinitive | snorkellers | | | shark | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:028-sharks.lesson:4`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sharks, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/3/) - next →: [Sharks, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/)